all the bickering and the influence？peddling and the game？playing of the last few decades， Washington and Wall Street have lost touch with these values. And while I honor John McCain s service to his country， his ideas for America are out of touch with these values. His plans for the future are nothing more than the failed policies of the past. And his plan to win in November appears to come from the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after election.

Yes， we know what s coming. We ve seen it already. The same names and labels they always pin on everyone who doesn t agree with all their ideas. The same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives by pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy in the hope that the media will play along. The attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences to turn us against each other for pure political gain to slice and dice this country into Red States and Blue States； blue？collar and white？collar； white and black， and brown.

This is what they will do no matter which one of us is the nominee. The question， then， is not what kind of campaign they ll run， it s what kind of campaign we will run. It s what we will do to make this year different. I didn t get into race thinking that I could avoid this kind of politics， but I am running for President because this is the time to end it.

We will end it this time not because I m perfect I think by now this campaign has remin